Transcript extended Technical Activities Committee

with TAC members, TC Chairs, and Chapter Chairs
Hawaii, Oct. 11, 2005
extended
Technical Activities Committee Meeting
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Organization
(3 min.)
Introduction of Members
(5 min.)
TC activities in 2005
(2 min.)
Chapters
(3 min.)
Technical Operational Manual
(10 min.)
Role change - TCs as SIGs
(5 min.)
Promotion/Support for TCs
(5 min.)
Announcement from e-Newsletter Editor (1 min.)
(Q&A and free discussion)
(3 min.)
Organizations for
SMCS Technical Activities
Technical Activities Committee
VP-TA Daniel Yeung
(2004-2005)
Hideyuki Takagi (2006-2007)
Chapter
Coordinator
MuDer Jeng (2005)
TC
Coordinator
3 EICs
H. Takagi (2005)
Chpt .... Chpt
TC ..... TC
AE ..... AE
18 Chapters
20 Technical Committees
3 Transactions
VP for
Publ.
(5 min. for 1/4)
Introduction of Members:
-- TCs in Cybernetics
TC on Computational Intelligence
TC on Computational Life Science
Xizhao Wang
Michael R. Berthold, Hong Yan,
and Daniel Yeung
TC on Expert and Knowledge Based Systems, John W. T. Lee
TC on Intelligent Communications
Ljiljana Trajkovic
TC on Knowledge Acquisition in Intel. Systems Stuart H. Rubin
and Shu-Ching Chen
TC on Machine Learning
YuanYan Tang
TC on Media Computing
Zhi-Qiang Liu and Daniel Yeung
TC on Medical Information,
Cathy M. Helgason
(previously TC on Bio-Informatics)
and Thomas H. Jobe
TC on Soft Computing
Tadahiko Murata
(5 min. for 2/4)
Introduction of Members:
-- Human-Machine Systems
TC on Human Machine Interaction
Stephanie Guerlain
(Ellen Bass)
We need new TCs in Human-Machine Systems area that is one of
features of SMCS.
(5 min. for 3/4)
Introduction of Members:
-- Systems
TC on Conflict Resolution
LiPing Fang and Keith W. Hipel
TC on Control of Uncertain Systems
Abdelkader El Kamel
TC on Discrete Event Systems
MuDer Jeng
TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems
Dilip B. Kotak and William A. Gruver
TC on Homeland Security
Hsinchun Chen and Don Brown
(previously TC on Homeland Security, Communication, and Transportation)
TC on Industrial Applications
Seppo J. Ovaska
TC on Intelligent Transportation Systems
TsuTian Lee
TC on Robotics and Intelligent Sensing
Hong Zhang
(previously TC on Robotics and Manufacturing Automation)
TC on Service Systems and Organizations Jian Chen
TC on Systems Safety & Security
Ali G. Hessami
(previously TC on Systems Assurance)
(5 min. for 4/4)
Introduction of Members:
-- SMCS Chapters here
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Chapters established
France （Abdelkader El Kamel)
UK & RI (Ali G. Hessami)
Hong Kong (Daniel Yeung)
Taipei (Jau Woei Perng as an alternative of Bing-Fei Wu)
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Chapters whose petitions to create were sent to
IEEE
Central Texas (Yu Zhang as an alternative of Philip Chen)
Vancouver (Dorian Sabaz)
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Chapters collecting signatures to establish
Okayama (Hossam Gabbar)
(2 min.)
TC Activities in 2005
Outstanding TCs
TC on Soft Computing (Tadahiko Murata)
collected 36 papers and organized 7 sessions at SMC2005.
(40, 46, and 24 papers for SMC'04, SMC'03, and SMC'02)
TC on Industrial Applications (Seppo J. Ovaska)
organized SMCia/05 with full sponsorship and
WSTST2005 technical co-sponsorship
TC on Discrete Event Systems (MuDer Jeng)
collected 10 papers for SMC2005, organizing ICNSC2005 with
sponsorship, and organized 2 special issues for SMCS Trans.
Inactive TCs
There are no TC Chairs who lost interests to continue their TC activities.
However, there are space to increase their activities.
(3 min. for 1/2)
Status of SMCS Chapters
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18 Chapters are running
Chile, Milwaukee, North Jersey, Orlando, Philadelphia,
Bulgaria, Central & South Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, UK&RI,
Boading, Beijing, Hong Kong, Japan, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei
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Petitions to create 4 Chapters were sent to IEEE
Croatia, Central Texas, Vancouver, Kitchener Waterloo
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6 Chapters are collecting signatures to establish
Portugal, Mexico, Calgary, Okayama, Korea (Seoul or Daejeon),
Guanzhou
(3 min. for 2/2)
Organizing Chapters Events
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Chapter Chairs are strongly encouraged to keep
active by organizing special events such as
conferences, meetings, lectures program.
SMCS can provide up to $1,000 for max 5
chapters per year for organizing a special event
(proposal is required).
Distinguished Lecturer Program: SMCS
supports the travel cost of DL in part for Chapter
activities. (See detail at SMCS web page.)
(10 min. for 1/3)
TC Operation Manual
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It defines the role of
each SMCS technical position explicitly.
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Six criteria to evaluate & close TCs decided in 2000:
• organizing session(s) at the SMC annual conference,
• giving tutorial course(s) at the SMC annual conference,
• organizing workshop(s) or conference(s) sponsored by SMCS,
• organizing special issues for the SMC Transaction(s),
• submitting tutorial paper(s) for the SMC Transaction(s), and/or
• serving as an Associate Editor for SMCS transactions
new rules decided at BoG on 10/09/2005
(10 min. for 2/3)
Carrot and Stick Policy
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Roll of TC Chairs for serving for SMCS
became a little heavier.
from: at least one of six activities in previous page
to: organizing session(s) every year and
one of other five activities within 5 years
SMCS's supports to TCs will increase.
TC promotion at web page
IT supports for TC activities
(10 min. for 3/3)
TC Chair's New Duty
-- newly changed in 2005
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All TC Chairs, Co-Chairs or Vice-Chairs must be IEEE
members of SMCS.
To provide an incentive for SMC chapters to collaborate with
the TCs in order to strengthen the role of TCs as SMCS’
technical leaders and to attract the establishment of more
grass root organizations that can help boost the SMCS
membership drive.
All TC Chairs will be invited to serve as PC members of the
annual SMC Conference.
Each TC must organize at least one invited session at
conferences or workshops sponsored by SMCS.
As a long term goal, each TC shall organize, within a period
of 5 years, at least one special issue in a journal (preferably in
one of the SMC publications), one workshop or local
conference (preferably in collaboration with at least one SMC
chapter), and/or one collaborative project with the industry.
(5 min.)
Role change - TCs as SIGs
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One idea under discussion is to change the role of TCs
as Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
Its objectives are to welcome almost all SMCS
membership to join TC activity, encourage their
voluntary activity based on their interest, and increase
SMSC's technical activities.
To support the SIG activity, SMCS will technically
support Internet technology for SIG meeting on Internet,
TC e-newsletter, TC mailing list, TC BBS, and others.
All reactions from TC Chairs to this idea are favorable.
(5 min.)
Promotion/Support for TCs
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TC web design
(by TC web Editor, Hong Yan)
1. TC promotion to recruit members
Direction （objectives, scope, and mission）
Actual （what we are doing now?）
Members（Chair with a photo and members' names）
Message（appeal your TC to non-TC members)
are collected by the end of November and opened from 1/01.
2. IT support functions for TC activities
What kind of IT supports are helpful for
technical activities of your TC or Chapter?
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Annual budget
(1 min.)
Announcement from
e-Newsletter Editor
Call for Technical Advisor
It would be helpful if TC members of
respective technical areas can come
up with some suggestions how to
feature more commented highlights
from SMC-A and SMC-B in the
Newsletter.
Thank you!
Thank you for your voluntary service
for IEEE SMC Society.